Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 593 866 803
Rank change year-on-year +273 -63 -159
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 144 218 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 1.40% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 108 144 236
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,985 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,250 £86,250 £86,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,750 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.05% +10.53% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPsec is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,058 15,585 16,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.10% 12.43% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,334 10,462 11,508
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec.

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +241 119 £55,000 +4.76% 50
UK excluding London +243 106 £47,750 -9.05% 31
Work from Home +212 55 £65,000 +23.81% 23
South East +173 38 £71,250 +35.71% 6
London +206 35 £65,000 +18.18% 20
South West +85 23 £32,500 -61.76% 7
Wales +37 20 - -
Midlands +124 13 £43,000 -33.85% 16
West Midlands +117 12 £43,000 -31.20% 16
North of England +118 9 £68,750 +83.33% 2
East of England +121 6 £60,000 +9.09%
Yorkshire +92 6 £71,250 +42.50%
Scotland +50 3 £55,000 -
North West +91 2 £41,250 -4.62% 2
East Midlands +44 1 - -
North East +42 1 £75,000 +100.00%

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (13.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.08%) MS Exchange
2 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.11%) Azure
2 27 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (15.97%) Entra ID
4 19 (13.19%) AWS
4 19 (13.19%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.86%) GCP
5 7 (4.86%) IaaS
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.69%) GitHub
7 1 (0.69%) PaaS
7 1 (0.69%) SaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Serverless
7 1 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 115 (79.86%) VPN
2 84 (58.33%) BGP
3 79 (54.86%) Firewall
4 76 (52.78%) WAN
5 71 (49.31%) OSPF
6 66 (45.83%) LAN
7 53 (36.81%) Wi-Fi
8 40 (27.78%) Network Security
9 39 (27.08%) MPLS
10 38 (26.39%) DHCP
10 38 (26.39%) VLAN
11 37 (25.69%) DNS
12 28 (19.44%) Wireless
13 27 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
14 26 (18.06%) Cisco IOS
14 26 (18.06%) SD-WAN
15 22 (15.28%) Cisco ASA
16 21 (14.58%) Internet
17 19 (13.19%) NGFW
18 18 (12.50%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) GIS
2 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.69%) MySQL
2 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
General
1 25 (17.36%) Telecoms
2 14 (9.72%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.94%) Finance
4 8 (5.56%) Law
5 7 (4.86%) Legal
6 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.78%) Retail
7 3 (2.08%) French Language
7 3 (2.08%) German Language
7 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.08%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.08%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.08%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.69%) Aviation
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (40.97%) Network Engineer
2 26 (18.06%) Senior
3 23 (15.97%) Consultant
3 23 (15.97%) Project Consultant
4 21 (14.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Support Engineer
5 16 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
5 16 (11.11%) Senior Network Consultant
5 16 (11.11%) Senior Project Consultant
6 14 (9.72%) IP Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) Architect
7 13 (9.03%) Network Consultant
8 11 (7.64%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Network Architect
10 8 (5.56%) Network Support
10 8 (5.56%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.42%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.39%) Web Services
3 1 (0.69%) OAuth
3 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.69%) OpenID
3 1 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.69%) SAML
3 1 (0.69%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (43.06%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.94%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.17%) Reinsurance
4 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.08%) Replication
6 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.39%) PKI
6 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.69%) CMDB
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.92%) Windows
2 32 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.11%) Linux
4 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.39%) Debian
5 2 (1.39%) VMS
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.69%) ITIL
2 24 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 23 (15.97%) Actionable Insight
3 23 (15.97%) Change Advisory Board
4 22 (15.28%) Network Design
5 19 (13.19%) Project Delivery
6 14 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (8.33%) Load Balancing
8 11 (7.64%) Data Security
9 10 (6.94%) Agile
9 10 (6.94%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (6.25%) High Availability
10 9 (6.25%) Network Architecture
10 9 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (5.56%) Network Management
11 8 (5.56%) Security Hardening
12 7 (4.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.17%) Perl
1 6 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 6 (4.17%) Python
2 4 (2.78%) SQL
3 1 (0.69%) PHP
3 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 82 (56.94%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (44.44%) CCNP
3 47 (32.64%) CCNA
4 40 (27.78%) Security Cleared
5 38 (26.39%) SC Cleared
6 19 (13.19%) CCIE
7 17 (11.81%) A+ Certification
8 14 (9.72%) DV Cleared
9 8 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (4.86%) Degree
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Certification
11 6 (4.17%) JNCIA
11 6 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (3.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (3.47%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (2.08%) CCIP
13 3 (2.08%) JNCIE
13 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) SLA
2 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (20.14%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.64%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.08%) vCloud
6 3 (2.08%) VMware Server
7 2 (1.39%) Docker
7 2 (1.39%) Firmware
7 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.69%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.69%) RACF
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 32 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.78%) Grafana
3 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.08%) Nagios
3 3 (2.08%) Nessus
4 2 (1.39%) Ansible
4 2 (1.39%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.39%) Terraform
4 2 (1.39%) WSUS
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.69%) Nmap
5 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Puppet
5 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (75.69%) Cisco
2 71 (49.31%) Palo Alto
3 59 (40.97%) Juniper
4 43 (29.86%) CheckPoint
5 31 (21.53%) VMware
6 29 (20.14%) Fortinet
7 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
8 23 (15.97%) Forcepoint
8 23 (15.97%) McAfee
9 20 (13.89%) Oracle
10 15 (10.42%) Meraki
11 14 (9.72%) Riverbed
12 13 (9.03%) Aruba
13 11 (7.64%) F5
14 10 (6.94%) Dell
15 8 (5.56%) SolarWinds
16 7 (4.86%) NetApp
17 5 (3.47%) WatchGuard
18 4 (2.78%) HP
19 3 (2.08%) Citrix